Effective 2 August 2026
The short version: your birth data lives on your iPhone and is never sent to us. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking. One feature, Ask, sends chart facts and your typed question over the internet so an AI can answer; this page explains exactly what that means.
Tara Ghar is published by Chetan Potdar, an individual developer based in the Netherlands, who is the data controller for any processing described here. Contact: im.chetanpotdar@gmail.com.
Everything you enter and almost everything the app produces. Your name, birth date, birth time, birth place, your saved people, your charts, dashas, panchang, match results, daily readings and your Ask conversation history are all stored only on your iPhone, in protected app storage. The astrology itself is computed on the device by our own engine. None of this is uploaded, backed up by us, or visible to us in any way.
We run no servers that hold user data. There is no account, no sign-up, no user identifier and no analytics or advertising SDK in the app.
Ask is the one feature that uses the internet. When you ask a question about a chart, the app sends two things to our relay: the text of your question, and a set of chart facts such as planetary positions, house placements and dasha periods. The payload deliberately contains no name, no birth date, no birth time, no place, no coordinates and no identifier of any kind.
We want to be honest about a subtlety. Precise chart facts are like a timestamped photograph of the sky: someone holding them and an astronomy reference could work backwards to approximately when and roughly where a chart was cast. For that reason we treat the transmitted chart facts as your personal data, in pseudonymised form, and protect them accordingly rather than calling them anonymous.
The protections are structural. Requests carry no account and no user identifier. Our relay keeps no database of questions and does not log their content. It holds exactly one small operational record: to limit abuse, a salted one-way hash of your network address (or, for subscribers, of an Apple subscription identifier) is kept alongside a request counter for up to one day, then discarded. That hash cannot be reversed into an address, and it is never joined to the content of any question. Your conversation history exists only on your phone.
Two companies act as our processors for the Ask feature only:
Both process the data solely to deliver the answer to you, under data processing agreements. Both are based in the United States; transfers are covered by the Standard Contractual Clauses in those agreements.
Subscriptions and one-time purchases are handled entirely by Apple through your Apple ID. We never see your payment details. Apple provides us no information that identifies you.
Where the GDPR applies, we process Ask requests on the basis of performance of a contract: you asked a question, and transmitting it is the only way to answer it. No other processing of your personal data by us takes place.
Because your data is on your device and in nobody else's hands, you exercise most rights directly: you can read everything the app holds, and you can erase it. Removing a person inside the app deletes their chart, readings and conversations. Settings has a Delete Everything control that erases all app data at once. Deleting the app removes its container entirely. There is no copy on any server, so there is nothing further for us to delete on your behalf.
You also have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection under the GDPR, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. For anything at all, write to im.chetanpotdar@gmail.com.
Tara Ghar is not directed at children and offers guidance content intended for adults. We do not knowingly process data of children; since data stays on the device, none reaches us in any case.
If this policy changes, the new version appears at this address with a new effective date. A change will never quietly weaken the promises above; anything material will be called out in the app.